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\ MAROON AND GOLD Non-Profit Orgonization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Elon College, N. C. PERMIT No. 1 Return Requested VOLUME 49 ELON COLLEGE. N. C FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1969 NUMBER 16 ELON TO OFFER BILL Presented her e is the full copy of the Elon College bill, which will be presented in the annual State Student Legislature that meets in Raleigh for four days next week, beginning on Wednesday and lasting until Satur day. The bill, which will be voted upon by both Senate and House during the meetings, follows, with the title in capital letters: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA TO PROVIDE FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS TO BE AVAIL ABLE FOR THOSE AMERICANS LIVING OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND ARE EMPLOYED BY UNITED STATES CORPORATIONS V/ITH FOREIGN BASED INDUSTRIES. (Continued on page 2) Elon Founders Day Planned March 5th Delegation To Attend State Student Legislature Meeting The annual observance of the Elon College Foun ders Day has been set for March 5th, according to an announcement made this week, with North Carolina’s Governor Ro bert Scott to be the guest speaker for the occasion. Although the plans have not been com pleted for the Founders Day observ ance, it has been reveal ed that the convocation will be held in Elon’s Alumni Memorial Gym nasium at 11:30 o’clock that morning. The Founders Day pro gram each year does not always fall on the same date, but it is usually held early in March in commemoration of the granting of the Elon Col lege charter by the North Carolina General Assem bly. The charter was grant ed on March 11, 1889,and the Founders Day pro grams are held either on that date or on a date near that time. Actually, the Founders Day convo cation commemorates not only that charter date,for it also recalls other sig nificant dates in the be ginning of the college. Ground was broken for the first building on May 7th during that spring of 1889, and the first bricks were laid on May 20th, with the cornerstone cer emonies for the initial building held on July 18th that year. (Continued on page 4) An Elon College del egation consisting of ele ven students will repre sent Elon’s Student Gov ernment Association at the annual State Student Legislature for North Carolina colleges, which will hold its annual ses sions in Raleigh for four days next week. The Elon delegation is only one of many from the state’s various colleges and universities, which will converge on the Sher- aton-Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh next Wednesday, February 26th, for the annual meetings that will continue daily and night ly through next Saturday, March 1st. For those who may not be familiar with the State Student Legislature, the organization is an assem bly of college delegates, modelled after the North Carolina Legislature. Meetings have been held each year for many years, and the youthful college delegates get a first-hand knowledge of the legislative activities. Each college and uni versity in the state is in vited to send a delega tion, and there were no less than thirty-three colleges and universities represented at the 1968 legislative sessions last year. An even greater number of institutions is expected to be represent ed at the forthcoming 1969 session. The State Student Le gislature is a bi-cameral organization, with the representation equal in numbers from each insti tution in the Senate, with the membership o f the House based in ratio to the enrollment of the col lege or university that is represented. For this 1969 term Elon will have two delegates in the Senate and four dele gates in the House, al though a total of eleven Elon students will make the trip to Raleigh as representatives of the college’s Student Govern ment Association. George Scott, of Suf folk, Va,, a member of Elon’s senior class, will serve as vice-president of the State Student Legis lature for this 1969 ses sion, having been elect ed to the post at the an nual balloting held during the 1968 meeting last year. Other members of the Elon College delegation for 1969 include Don Tarkenton, chairman, of Chesapeake, Va,; Noel Allen, of Burlington; Paul Bleiberg, of Wilmington, Del,; Beth Brinckerhoff, of Richmond, Va.; Phil Larrabee, of Virginia Beach, Va,; Sherri Mc- Girt, of Charlotte; Sally O’Neill, of Sycamore, 111.; York Poole, of Chesa peake, Va,; Kay Savage, of Whaleyville, Va.; and Bob Schloss, of Roxboro. These members of the Elon College delegation for 1969 began making preparations for the com ing sessions in Novem ber, with members of the delegation spending many hours in the library doing research and preparing the Elon bill that will be introduced In the state wide gathering. Each member college has the opportunity to in troduce bills in the legis lature, and those bills are acted upon by both the Senate and the House. The bill which Elon will introduce in the upcoming 1969 State Student Legis lature will seek passage of a measure that will provide for absentee vot ing for all Americans liv ing outside the United States due to employment by American businesses with foreign-based units. A full copy of the bill is presented elsewhere in this paper. PAUL BLEIBERG NOEL ALLEN ‘^ALLY O’NEILL KAY SAVAGE THEY WILL REPRESENT ELON IN RALEIGH NEXT WEEK The eight students pic tured here will be in cluded in the delegation which represents Elon College at the State Stu dent Legislature that meets in Raleigh from Wednesday through Sat urday of next week. Other members of the Elon del egation, for whom pic- tiJres were not available, include Beth Brincker- hoff, York Poole and Bob Schloss. PHIL LARRABEE SHERI McGIRT GEORGE SCOTT DON TARKENTON
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